John g



(No Model.)

' J. G. ROSS.

' HEEL. No. 264,963. Patented Sept. 26,1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. ROSS, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEEL.

. SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,963, datedSeptember 26, 1882;" App'lioation filed January 31. I881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN G. Ross, of Lynn, in the county of Essex andState of Massachu setts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Heels; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to lettersof reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 shows a heel with the differentlifts V in position to be cutand shaped. Fig. 2 shows for sale.

a finished heel. Fig. 3 shows a view of Fig. 1

with the former in its place before the press me is applied. Fig. 4shows theheel with the former after the pressure has been put on. Fig. 5is a view of the former.

Same letters show like parts.

Thisinventiou relates to a newmethod of making boot and shoe heels.Letters Patent of the United States have already been granted me of dateNovember 16, 1880; but the method hereinabout to be explained differsfrom the one described in said patent.

The first step in my improved process consists in taking the differentpiecesof leather or lifts of which the heel is to be made and cementing, gluing, or otherwise fastening them together. When the differentliftsof the heel have thus been united, 1 then place on the upper face of theheel the former a, as illustrated in Fig. 3. By the upper face of theheel here I mean that face that is fitted to the shoe when completed.The former is of the shape substantially as given in my former patent.It has, however, the two perforations or recesses d fitted to receivetwo studs or pins of a machine in which the rough heel is at lastfinished or shaped for sale and use. I may here observe that the formera is not in my present invention removed from the heel at all from thetime it is used to shape the upperface thereof until the heel is finallycompleted and ready After the former has been placed on the upper faceof the rough heel the heel is placed upon a proper table, or in a recessor holder fitted to receive it, and then, by hydraulic or other force,the former is pressed into the upper face of the heel until the flatface of the former is level, at least, with the edges of the leather ofthe upper lift of the heel. 'When this is accomplished the heel with theformer still in it is transferred to a machine'wherethe heel isfinished, the two holes (I d acting to receive studs of a heel-holder onthe machine, whereby the heel may beturned, as is necessary, in thefinishing of it. These holes may, however, be in the machine and thestuds be placed upon the former, whichever is the more convenient.

lhad formerly supposed it was necessary to apply the pressure to onlyone or two of the first hits of the heel before the rest were attachedto it, and to fill in where these two top lifts were made convex by thepressure ap plied to them with skivings in order to obtain a flatsurface on which to build the succeeding lifts. In my present inventionthis is rendered unnecessary, as the pressure accomplishes the necessaryconcavity in the top surface of the heel.

Thinning down the convex surface of the two first top lifts was alsospecified in myformer patent, already referred to; but my presentprocess obviates this operation also.

The heel thus made is solid and firm, without spring or curl to theleather, and is fastened to the boot or shoe by cementing, gluing, ornailing, and can be repaired.

The former remains in itsplace on the heel until the heel is polishedand fully completed.

I disclaim the process and product of Patent No. 234,430, dated November16, 1880.

The former serves to hold the heel or the top lifts thereof in propershape and position while it is being cut and polished in the machine.The edge of the former serves as aguide by which to trim the top edge,n, of the heel. The edge of the former, thus acting as a guide, enablesme to make this top'edge of an uniform thickness all around.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

That improvement in the art of manufactur- 1 ing heels for boots andshoes which consists in placing the desired number of lifts to form theheel together and cementing them to each In testimony that I claim theforegoing as other with a plano-convex former on the botmy own I affixmy signature in presence of two tom lift, then submitting the Whole topresswitnesses.

ure until the former is embedded in the upper JOHN G. ROSS. surface ofthe heel, and afterward trimming Witnesses: and polishing the heel Whilethe former is still WILLIAM HENRY CLIFFORD,

attached to it, substantially as set forth. CHARLES E. CLIFFORD.

